And I would think in 24 hours, theyll be writing stories that obviously Johnson got peace on the DMZ, and to watch the cities. The depth of our conviction is evidenced by the intensity of our opposition. I'm going to take a hell of a lot of advantage of you, my friend, 'cause you made me and I know it and I don't ever forget. Eugene V. Rostow to Walt W. Rostow, 29 October 1968, Reference File: Anna Chennault, South Vietnam and U.S. He. Congressional leaders privately urged President John F. Kennedy to invade Cuba at the outset of the Cuban missile crisis, newly released White House tapes show. Well, then Ive carried on five years a pretty big failure, havent I? L. Sherman Adams was a U.S. representative [RNew Hampshire] from January 1945 to January 1947; the Republican governor of New Hampshire from January 1949 to January 1953; and White House chief of staff from January 1953 to October 1958. And Mrs. [Anna C.] Chennault is contacting their ambassador from time to time. It is not going to take much time but we've got to get a states' rights man in there1 and somebody that the country has confidence in. Richard Russell, 'Rich': 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Kessler got the quote from Robert MacMillan, an Air Force One steward who said LBJ uttered this comment to two governors during a conversation on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They're both pretty young men. Wait a minute! [note 12] Anna Chan Chennault was the widow of Gen. Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the World War II aviators known as The Flying Tigers, who flew missions against the Japanese invaders of China. [Snorts.] Mrs. Chennault, you know, of the Flying Tigers. And of course if a fellow was accurate enough to hit Kennedy right in the neck on one shot and knock his head off in the next one - and he's leaning up against his wife's head - and not even wound her - why, he didn't miss completely with that third shot. "How do you get into Who's Who?" [Russell acknowledges.] Lyndon B. Johnson: Okay. "One of the world's greatest collections of antique woodworking tools", wrote John G. Wells in his review: "A Bounty of Tools in an Outstanding Collector's Book". You're going to be at my command as long as I'm here. Lyndon B. Johnson: No, that's right, and I've got to get the highest Justice I can get. The gold medals awarded by the Society were highly valued. Second, this [Nguyn Cao] K gets in it, and K says that he thinks that were really winning militarily, and just give a few more days, and well have everything. Ambassador Dim wrote that by Nixon entourage, he meant Anna Chennault, [Campaign Chairman] John Mitchell, and Senator [John G.] Tower [RTexas].. "[5], Walter Russell's careers as an illustrator, correspondent in the SpanishAmerican War, child portrait painter and builder are detailed in several questionnaires he answered and submitted to Who's Who in America. [note 26] Alexei Kosygin was chair of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from October 1964 to October 1980. [Ellsworth F.] Bunker? history and strives to apply the lessons of history to the nations most Now wait a minute. I mean, shes a pretty good-looking girl. [1] He began a career in journalism in 1929 at the Newcastle Chronicle, moving to Reuters in 1931. That we cannot do any good in the North for the next 90 days anyway, that we need this power in South Vietnam, and we need this power in Laos. Lyndon B. Johnson: Of course, but how do I stop it? [Unclear] been fooling with them for two or three months. Its just like my getting up and saying, I know Dick Russell. Lyndon B. Johnson: All right. He immediately set up a commission to "ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late President John F. Richard Russell: They shouldn't have done it. Richard Russell: I just can't do it. Kent Sieg (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office), 7: doc. His general statement was very much along the line of [John P.] McConnells, if you remember it. [note 9] Beijing-born Anna C. Chennault was a prominent Republican fundraiser and member of the China Lobby. But with the high turnover (if you follow Horizon Air jobs, you will know they are always hiring that position for SeaTac), its not that hard to imagine. But theres no question but what theyre in it. RUSSELL: With all my Georgia items in there. I said Clark wouldn't do. To be clear, the people I worked with were dedicated, hard working, safety-conscious, attempting to be loyalall of the things that are supposed to get you ahead in America. Lyndon B. Johnson: I'm afraid to say I'll talk to anybody 'cause they'll say the White House is calling. Richard's situation was not unusual for what has morphed into a wage-slave economy. Walter Russell died in 1963. Russell organized 18 Southern Democratic senators in filibustering this bill. The Sky Thief: Beebo Russell's Last Flight - Rolling Stone I like to put my own views down. [13] He won the commissions for the Mark Twain Memorial (1934) and for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Monument (1943). . Getty Images. I don't know how to help him. Politics, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. Pretty good. No, I dont think so. There is little room for honorable men to compromise where the inalienable rights of future generations are at stake. "[16] Russell used the terminology of Richard Maurice Bucke in his book Cosmic Consciousness[17] to explain "cosmic illumination." The Sky Thief How did Beebo Russell a goofy, God-fearing baggage handler steal a passenger plane from the Seattle-Tacoma airport and end up alone in a cockpit, with no plan to come down?. Lyndon B. Johnson: Well, we'll just make the time. Frontline Heath Care Workers Support I-135, The 4th Ave Station Is a Train Wreck for the CID, Washington Needs Ranked-Choice Voting for Presidential Primaries. [7], By 1903, Russell had published three children's books (The Sea Children, The Bending of the Twig, and The Age of Innocence) and qualified for the Authors Club, which he joined in 1902. Russell served in the Naval Reserve during the First World War and was given command of a coastal battery. One of them explained to the group that Nixon was handling the Vietnam peace problem like another Fortas case. Earlier in the month, Republicans and conservative Democrats had blocked LBJs nomination of Abraham Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States. "Think: The First Principle of Business Success", Laara Lindo and Yasuhiko Kimura, eds., Blacksburg, Virginia, University of Science and Philosophy, 2000, p. 109. But I think Mr. Warren would serve on anything that would give him any publicity. . You know in their country, when something changes, the whole outfit changes. They want to know what you think Richard Russell: You're taking advantage of me Lyndon B. Johnson: No, no, no. Projects involving federal funds could now be cut off if there was evidence of discriminated based on colour, race or national origin. It's too long. Four volumes. Its not important when they show up at this meeting, if we give them a week. What's it say? Richard Russell: No, I don't think you're kidding me. You know what happened? More than 500 tactical fighter planes already were massed in Florida by Oct. 22. Then this guy comes in and said, Now, let me show you here. First, he was studious and hardworking, he knew the rules up and down. "During that periodI could perceive all motion," and was newly "aware of all things. Earlier in the month, Republicans and conservative Democrats had blocked the Presidents nomination of Abraham Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States. "[2], Born in Boston on May 19, 1871, to Nova Scotian immigrants, Russell left school at age 9 and went to work, then put himself through the Massachusetts Normal Art School. Russell told the Senate: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states." "Service set Sunday for Mrs. Russell," Waynesboro News-Virginian, May 6, 1988. I think we might get John McCloy . They say they need more time. If you'd call Mike Lyndon B. Johnson: I'm not the one to call Mike. Bundy, who had been national security adviser when Johnson first deployed U.S. combat troops to Vietnam in 1965, had made a speech at DePauw University on 12 October 1968, calling for the steady and systematic withdrawal of U.S. forces even in the absence of truce. While Smith did write about the 1968 presidential campaign, it is not clear which story President Johnson means. Did LBJ Say, 'I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years'? I think that Ford and Boggs would be pretty good. Richard Russell: Mr. President, you ought to have told me you were going to name me. Lyndon B. Johnson: I know. I believe Beebo was acutely aware of thatbecause we all were. FBI: Richard Russell, who stole plane from Sea-Tac, acted alone Lyndon B. Johnson: Well, you can give him some confidence. We dont think theyre going to come in the light of the Nixon thing. Manage Settings I wouldve been hard as hell with him [chuckling] [unclear]. No I haven't. Eight thousand pages of raw material. At most, on Monday. Subscribe to our Spartacus Newsletter and keep up to date with the latest articles. I just said, "Now here's the situation I want to tell you.". Biographer Glenn Clark identifies four instructors who prepared him for an art career: Albert Munsell and Ernest Major in Boston, Howard Pyle in Philadelphia, and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. Im surprised at Nixon. [note 19] Adlai E. Stevenson II was the Democratic governor of Illinois from January 1949 to January 1953; the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956; and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from January 1961 until his death in July 1965. Should government leaders have to pass cognitive tests to stay in office? As ground service agents, we handled luggage, walked through planes for final inspection, and pushed them out onto the taxiway. It now included delays caused by weather and Air Traffic Control, circumstances completely out of our control. "[18] Russell's supposed knowledge gained "in the Light" is the subject matter of his book The Divine Iliad, published in two volumes in 1949.[19]. I had everybody running around here trying to fix it, and the upstairs phone, just somebodyd left it . It looks to me like they're just trying to keep the damned thing. That I have agreed with the other side to meet in Paris on the 6ththats the day after the electionat our next regular meeting next Wednesday. He was. This is not me. . Lyndon B. Johnson: The Chief Justice ought to do anything he can to save America and right now we've got a very touchy thing. wants to say a word to you and I'll be back. Now, Ive heard all that and Ive seen all that in cables, but I just didnt take it. I just dont see how they can possibly stay out. And were going to say that we have understood that you could be present at this meeting a week from now, and we hope youre there. They do the wrong thing every time, but we wore that out, and we got it back on the track. Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office has officially ruled Russell's death a suicide. Scientist and Artist Dispute Newton and Kepler Findings, Walter Russell, The Secret of Light, 1947, notes, "Artist to turn Virginia Mansion Into Museum of Own Creations,", Hardy, Charles, A Worthy Messenger, 2013, p.276n, "Walter Russell Dies A 20th Century DaVinci, New York Herald Tribune, May 20, 1963. Minutes later, the president went on television to announce a different tactic: a blockade against ships bound for Cuba with offensive weapons. Richard Russell: quiet, well-liked Seattle airport worker who stole a Robert Russell (architect) - Wikipedia Osama bin Ladens mom did an interview recently and said he was a good kid who got brainwashed they talked about how good of a person he was and then got that way. [14]', As World War II approached, he moved into a top-floor studio at Carnegie Hall, where he lived alone (his estranged wife Helen lived in Connecticut). If theyre admitted to the table, thats all theyve been insisting on. Security footage shows man stealing plane he later crashed into a Lyndon B. Johnson: And he'll probably have it out today. [speaking over Russell] They were. And when you step onto the stairway of your next flight, holding that Big Mac you bought in the terminal because otherwise there's no reasonably priced food on the plane (customers are now just numbers, too), remember that the person who flipped your burger is probably making $3/hr more than the person who handles your luggage, walks around the plane doing final inspections, and ultimately pushes the plane full of 76 souls (as we used to say) out to the overcrowded taxiway to send you off safely. The Russells collaborated on a number of books. I never Richard Russell: I didn't say "wrong." ], And I dont believe publicly Nixon can take us on anyway. At a secret meeting in New York, Chennault had introduced South Vietnamese ambassador Bi Dim to Mitchell and Nixon. Russell was born on 29 May 1904, the son of J Stanley Russell of Seahouses, Northumberland. . Lyndon B. Johnson: You damned sure going to be at my command! Lyndon B. Johnson: I know you don't want to do anything, but I want you to. A member of the Democratic Party, Russell served in Georgia's House of Representatives (1921-1931) and as Governor of Georgia (1931-1933). But what we would get at the DMZ, which will be reflected in two hours after we make the announcement . And though, Mr. President, we have failed in this fight to protect them from a burgeoning bureaucracy that is already planning and organizing invasion after invasion of the South our failure cannot be ascribed to lack of effort. And were going to make an announcement of that. Hes got an inquiring mind, goes into things, see what its all about. The FBI is investigating the stunning heist, which has raised concerns about the security of commercial aircraft and mental health issues among airline workers nearly 17 years after the Sept. 11,. [Pause.] I was a ground service agent at Horizon Air for the better part of 2016. They have three planes, and hes on a separate plane, and he justhis job is to spread rumors and background the press. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Now, if I get peace there, all right. If youre on Medicare, you can help stop fraud! National Historical Publications and Records Commission, http://prde.upress.virginia.edu/conversations/4006111, Copyright 2014 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. This was a low time that required a rejuvenation of his health and spirit. On the other hand, Russell spoke out in 1954 against American military intervention in French-controlled Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson: No, it is not rough. The president had learned only hours earlier that a U.S. airstrike would be less than 100 percent effective against the missiles and that a ground invasion could take months. Oh, yeah, he says that, but then he says that everybody. He was elected to the Senate on 12th January, 1933, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William J. Harris. Now don't tell me that I've worked all day and done wrong. [note 13] President Johnson is referring to NSA interception of cables from the South Vietnamese embassy to Saigon and the CIA bug in South Vietnamese president Nguyn Vn Thius office. So I finally made them say there was a difference in the commission, in that part of them believed that that wasn't so. Now, were going to stop in the next few hours. with thoughtful technological innovation designed for scholars and But we got you a pretty good report. Humphrey says that hes notgoing tolet you veto anything he does. That's why he's against it now. Richard Russell: If it is for the good of the country, you know damned well I'll do it and I'll do it for you, for that matter Lyndon B. Johnson: Dick, do you remember when you met me at the Carlton Hotel in 1952? But according to their theory, he not only missed the whole automobile, but he missed the street! Mr. President, the people of the South are citizens of this Republic. But the next time youre at SeaTac, take the chance to look out at Horizons gates from the main food court, and marvel at the controlled chaos on the ground. That could have flown over the Pearl Jam concert luckily he came down on Ketron Island in which there are like 11 or 17 people who live there. A Tale of Two White Men. Richard Russell committed suicide in | by I dont know what theyd do with the time. It wouldn't do. But at what point do we use mental health or other factors to explain away a persons actions? Do some people get leeway while others dont? I'm going to try Senator Russell and Senator Cooper from the Senate Richard Russell: Oh no, no, no, get somebody else now. Now these things are going to be developing and I know you're going to have your reservations and your modesty. Richard Russell: I know you wouldn't want Clark hardly. Former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson says months after his sudden exit from the network he still doesn't know "why I was fired.". Richard Russell: Details emerge of a 'warm' man after Seattle plane You are making around $3 less per hour than anybody else at SeaTac (including other airline employees, restaurant employees, car rental employees, bus drivers, etc. A bay and a black. But - we won't discuss it any further Mr. President. I don't like that man. that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political They become empty gestures from a management who knows youll never use them, and thus cost the company little. Lyndon B. Johnson: Dick? First, he says we havent got enough time to get a delegation there. Richard Russell: I didn't say you'd done wrong. Now, the Soviets are climbing the wall, and Hanoi is and, of course, our people in Paris are, because they have agreed that they will let the GVN come to the table. If they get back to us, we will publish their response. [Coughs. The tapes, released after being kept secret for more than 32 years, cover two meetings held Oct. 22, 1962, about a week after aerial reconnaissance photos first revealed a Soviet medium-range missile site under construction in Cuba. Schooling to sixth grade constituted legal proof of literacy and the attorney general was given power to initiate legal action in any area where he found a pattern of resistance to the law. One or two of his business friends divulged it first a couple of days ago about the time he made the statement that he had rumors that the staff was selling out, but Ihe did not include me in it. I just don't think the Chief Justice should have served on it. The dust-jacket text summarises the book's aim as one of "providing a broad survey of hand tool-making from prehistory to today." Sound Transit Wants to Start Over on ST3. You's the only man in Washington that does. [4] His firm's building project in collaboration with the local architect Mike Walford at Webster's Yard, Kendal, was reviewed in depth in the Architects' Journal. But Gee wont go that far, even as a person who sympathizes with people having a hard time, such as the homeless or people who attempt suicide. Lyndon B. Johnson: Well, you ought to have taken another hour and gone get your clothes. Spike: Winning Mega Millions would pay the bills, but is it reasonable? . Mens Health Month: Why Its Important to Speak About Your Health. . They wouldnt be in it. On a taped telephone conversation Russell had with Lyndon B. Johnson about Oswald being the lone gunman, he is heard saying that "I don't believe it". . They were all firm. Were going to frustrate the President by saying to the South Vietnamese, and the Koreans, and the Thailanders, Beware of Johnson. At the same time, were going to say to Hanoi, I can make a better deal than he has because Im fresh and new, and I dont have to demand as much as he does in the light of past positions. [Coughs and snorts.] Well . Richard Russell: Afraid it might get into the courts? However, Governor Connally's testimony and certain other factors have given rise to some difference of opinion as to this probability but there is no question in the mind of any member of the Commission that all the shots which caused the President's and Governor Connally's wounds were fired from the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. "Woodworking tools collector dies aged 82", This page was last edited on 25 June 2023, at 10:29. . A.W. Richard Russell: It is not only that. Russell participated in his first filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1935 when he stopped an anti-lynching bill (Costigan-Wagner Act) with 6 days of nonstop talking. The testing of atomic bombs in the atmosphere prompted them to publish Atomic Suicide? Russell copyrighted a spiral shaped Periodic Chart of the Elements in 1926. Richard Russell, Beebo to his friends, stole a commercial airplane from Sea-Tac Airport and took it for a joyride before he crashed it on a small Puget Sound island. He rose to top rank as a sculptor. And hes just not erratic at all. Richard Russell: I may be wholly wrong. His public statements havent been too bad, the ones Ive heard. Well, were talking to them every day, two or three times a day. Fraud costs Medicare an estimated $60 billion each year and ultimately raises the cost of health care for everyone. Health insurance and stock options might be nice, but they dont pay the rent. Richard Jewell really was the hero of the Olympic bombing. WA Supreme Court Should Uphold the Capital Gains Tax, Why the Mars Hill Faithful Have Started to Question Mark. Richard Russell: I'm doing the best I can, Mr. President, but God knows, I've got a hell of a lot to do. He's making as much money as I am. ", Assassination of John F. Kennedy Encyclopedia. New footage shows airport worker Richard Russell steal plane The Great Big KIRO Newsradio Holiday Special, The truth about Gigs, Gs and other internet marketing jargon, Education that meets the needs of students, families, Emergency planning for the worst-case scenario. I think that does. Richard Russell: Well, it don't make much difference. No, I dont see how he could refuse to come aboard. I can serve with a Chinaman. Rick Riordan, in full Richard Russell Riordan, Jr., (born June 5, 1964, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.), American author and teacher who was perhaps best known for his hugely popular Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series, which blends Greek mythology with modern-day characters and settings. And Im going to say, Well, because its Sunday nights when I got the assurances I wanted. And I had them confirmed by Abrams yesterday, and if they want to come with me, all right; if they dont go with meOK, I just wanted your feel of it. If they dont want us, why, by God, our manners are not that bad [unclear] visiting there with him, he said, Get out now. We say, Well, you welcomed me here, and I thought I was welcome, but if Im not, of course, Ill leave.. And then if they come aboard, all right, and if they dont, why, Id just . A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 to 1971. I didn't even have a toothbrush. Richard Russell: I don't know. You can do anything. . But Bobby and Ernie are two of the most loyal friends you've got on earth. Richard B. Russell Jr. - New Georgia Encyclopedia Well, no, no. Except for an automatically generated response that said they received our message, we have not heard back. Rick Riordan | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica And I have means of doing that, as you may well imagine. When Will Seattle Get Police Alternatives? And by the time we put the thing intohave the meetingwhy, there wont be much chance. MOURSUND: But you come see us. He's in Atlanta tonight. And he started crying and he said, "I won't turn you down. 'Course, I know I'm talking to a man that's got a hell of a lot more to do than I have. FBI recovers flight recorder, Richard Russell's remains from stolen Richard Russell: You've never begged me. . And theyre reallythey think thatyou know, hes just been mad that somethings going to happen this election. Richard Russell: As long as it is confined to those two, it wouldn't present any problem at all. The first thing I thought when I heard the news about a plane being stolen by a Horizon employee was, "Ah yes, the end of summer. Richard Russell: I don't know when I've been as unhappy about a thing as I am this. So I supposed working at Horizon was an upgrade for him. His seven-year tenure generated many articles in the New York Times. Louis Sherwin, "Walter Russell Painting Cosmos to Prove Newton's Apple a Lemon," New York Evening Post, March 4, 1931. When I worked for Horizon, we were cursing our low-wage fate in the break room, while Alaska was spending $2.5 billion acquiring Virgin America (gotta keep up with Delta), and then investing another $2.5 billion upgrading their turboprop airplane fleet to jets. It wasn't destructive. Back in Cumbria he formed a partnership with his brother and by the end of his career their building firm, by then known as Russell Armer Ltd, employed some 250 men. You don't have a President assassinated but every fifty years. It's the damnedest mess you ever saw. A.W. Bobby and them went up to see him today and he turned them down cold and said, "No." So weve tried to get them back on board. He works on it all the time. Brought your lunch to save spending $10 buying a meal in the terminal? Richard Russell: How are things down in Texas? requires a lot of sacrifice to keep the planes moving. [note 17] Vice President Humphrey had called for a total halt to the bombing of North Vietnam in a nationally televised campaign speech on 30 September 1968 and repeated the call two weeks later at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri, adding, I said period, not comma or semicolon. John W. Finney, Humphrey Taunts Nixon as Chicken, New York Times, 16 October 1968. [Pause.] Well, theyll all hang together. In any event, he says this thing has changed so radically since last August that not only do we no longer endanger our men, that this gives them much more protection [than] theyd have if we just followed the existing policy. "[23] Russell never referred to an anthropomorphic god, but rather wrote that "God is the invisible, motionless, sexless, undivided, and unconditioned white Magnetic Light of Mind"[24] which centers all things. Moursund! Richard Russell: You did not. Lyndon B. Johnson: Of this special commission. Hell, he's depending on you. David Richard Russell was born at Burneside near Kendal in Westmorland (now part of Cumbria), England, the younger son of Albert, a worker in a Cumbrian gunpowder-keg factory,[2] and Alice Russell (ne Mason). Lyndon B. Johnson: Yes. Richard Russell: He's been appointed to the Georgia Court of Appeals. Hes a mechanic. The FBI was investigating. The Daily 202: 'Dick Russell was a racist. But he was much more than Something has snapped in him., "This will be my 55th show?